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MUST DO by Red Izba
1. Before coming to the Birthplace of Russia, find the tourist offer on Veliky Novgorod on the web-portal VisitNovgorod.com, book your accommodation and a guided tour with the on-line reservation system.
2. Download a free e-application ‘Mobile guide to Veliky Novgorod’ from the tourist information portal VisitNovgorod.com. The unique navigation program is about foot routes around the city, based on the Navigation Satellite System, the possibility to create individual tours, interactive maps accompanied with detailed information on the city infrastructure and all the leading tourist sites.
Besides there are available social communication options. The ‘Mobile guide’ helps to find new friends, ask out for a date at a certain venue. There is a lite version supported by simple mobile phones.
3. Get free advice on staying in Veliky Novgorod along with a map and a city guide in the Tourism Development Centre ‘Red Izba’.
4. Hire a bike and set off for a cycling tour around Veliky Novgorod and its outskirts. In a short while, you can see all the main sights of the city with little money spent.
5. Get immersed into the magnificent atmosphere of art and creativity and create own hand-made souvenir at master-classes and open-air lessons guided by Novgorod teaching artists and craftsmen.
6. Set forth onto a trip back to the past, get downstairs from the 21st century to the early Middle ages, see the past of the city that has been congealed in the cultural layer and watch the 'performance' of the Theatre of Time on theTroitsky excavation site.
7. Meet the Novgorod posadnik (the Mayor) Sbyslav Yakunovich and some well-known characters from Novgorod heroic epic and listen to the most interesting and mysterious stories about the Old Novgorod, get involved into the ‘Merchants’ Trial’ and ‘Novgorod Games’ while enjoying the staged walking tour.
8. Get involved into the staged collecting of coins from the Hansa fountain at Yaroslav’s Courtyard and contribute to the ‘Novgorod treasury’.
9. Come to the International Tour Film Festival in Veliky Novgorod in September 2010.
10. Fall deep in love with the ancient city and promise yourself to come back here again.